i try not to feel sorry for myself when i trip over my problems.
i try not to blink when they tell me to stand still.
even though i'm my own person, i need their words.
even though i can think my own thoughts i still rely on theirs.
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I guess I have a hard time with this. The content is interesting, but it looks more like therapy than poetry. But we all do that. Most of my poems are of that ilk. It just happens that most of the time I can make the words flow or rhyme or sing a little. but the therapy, when the poem is not 'cute' is always there. And I see it in your stuff. There's nothing wrong with that, but it gives me mixed feelings, about myself included.